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Message: <blockquote data-quote="James from London" data-source="post: 275159" data-attributes="member: 22">1931Jock Ewing: Her name was Amanda Lewis. She was a pretty little thing, fragile. You know, the kind you had to protect.Amanda Ewing (née Lewis): You were always sweet on me, weren’t you, Jock?Jock: Always.Amanda: And we were always a pair, you and me.Jock: We sure were.Jason Ewing: They was always sweethearts, Jock and Amanda.Amanda: Everybody always said Miss Brannigan was sweet on Mr Trippet, that awful druggist.Jock: They weren’t much of a pair.Amanda: I didn’t say they were a pair, I just said she was sweet on him. Papa once hit Mr Trippet because he said something not so nice about Mama.Jason on Jock and Amanda: He married her even though he knew the older she’d get, the more she’d get like her mama.Digger: What’s her mama like?Jason: Loony.Wallace Windham: I was I suppose what some people would call an entrepreneur. I dabbled in all sorts of ventures as long as they were legal and profitable.Harve Smithfield: Did you ever dabble in the oil business?Wallace: Once, briefly, in 1931. At that time, our country was in great trouble. There were so many people out of work, so few jobs. A man would even sell you the shirt off his back for his next meal. If you had money, and I had it, why, you could buy almost anything at a fraction of its value. That’s how I met Jason Ewing and Digger Barnes. See, the price of petroleum was tumbling. People couldn’t afford to drive cars. Industry round the country was coming to a standstill. And Jason Ewing wanted out of the oil business before his third of Ewing Oil became worthless.Harve: So he offered to sell his share of Ewing Oil to you?Wallace: Yes.Harve: What about Digger Barnes?Wallace: He offered to sell his share too, though he never said too much. We met three times, I think he was drunk every time. Anyway, Jason Ewing did all the talking for both of them.Harve: Did you finally decide to buy both their shares of Ewing Oil?Wallace: I did. See, Jason was greedy and stupid so I bought their two-thirds of Ewing Oil for a very low price.Harve: What did you do then, Mr Windham?Wallace: I never bought anything that I couldn’t turn over for a quick profit so after their first visit, I checked on Ewing Oil and I found out they could and wanted to sell me their shares without telling Jock Ewing. Oh, and I found out a lot about Jock Ewing too. He was the brains of the outfit. The company meant everything to him so I knew I had a buyer and I sat back and I waited. I didn’t have to wait too long. When he found out about the deal, he was furious — and ashamed. He didn’t want anyone to know what his brother and best friend had done to him. He asked me to spare him the embarrassment of not changing the name of Ewing Oil. Since I was interested in owning it no longer than it took Jock to buy it back, I thought, “Well, that’s the least I can do.” So we agreed to conduct our business in secret. You know, he borrowed money up to his eyeballs, mortgaged everything he owned, and then week by week, month by month for over a year, Jock made payments to me. I don’t know how he scrimped and saved so much.Wallace to Jock’s sons: Your daddy really earned my respect for what he did. The man mortgaged nearly everything he owned at that time.Wallace: Jock Ewing was one hell of a man.1932Harve: Jock Ewing bought back Jason Ewing’s and Digger Barnes’ shares of Ewing Oil from Wallace Windham and became the sole legal owner of Ewing Oil on November 28th 1932.JR: Daddy didn’t keep many records in the early years.Wallace: Jock was a very careful man. He had copies of everything. He gave most of his papers to Amanda for safekeeping.Amanda, speaking to Jock as if it were still 1932: I feel positively awful you losing all your money that way.Bobby, pretending to be Jock: Do you remember some documents I gave you, some documents that I signed with Mr Windham?Amanda: Oh yes, I remember him. He came to the house once or twice.Bobby: They were some documents concerning Ewing Oil and me and Digger and Jason and Mr Windham.Jock on Amanda: I was wildcatting. Tough times. Men shooting, killing each other. There were accidents. It was just something that she couldn’t cope with, that’s all. All that strain. Everything got to her, everything depressed her.Pete Adams, private detective: Jason Ewing was quite a traveller. Starting in 1932, he left Texas for the first time.JR: That was when he and Daddy had their big blow up.Ray: Guess they had an awful fight and Jason just pulled up and left.Cliff on Jason and Digger: [Jock] took everything that was rightfully theirs and drove them away.Jamie: Nobody drove my daddy away.Pete Adams on Jason: He was in and out of Texas for the next five or six years or so.1933Al Baker: Remember when Fred and Ginger did the Carioca? “It's not a foxtrot or a polka …”Lilimae: I’m too young to remember that.Miss Ellie: The thirties were like a plague around here. There was drought, depression.Miss Ellie: Raising chickens kept my daddy and me alive during hard times.Garrison Southworth: I loved Daddy. I just couldn’t stand that look in his eyes when he’d come back from selling things off with hardly any money at all. I was his only son and I couldn’t help him. And he’d go right on, as if Southfork was the most prosperous ranch on earth. But his voice had an edge of fear. He never knew I heard that.Garrison: I never really hated this ranch. It was just that I could never live up to Daddy's expectations.Miss Ellie, speaking in 1933: You did say you’d come to the damn barbecue, Willard.Digger: I know.Ellie: Well, why didn’t you?Digger: I guess I forgot.Ellie: You didn’t forget. You were scared.Digger’s doctor, speaking in 1951: I set this wrist eighteen years ago. I set it temporary. He supposed to come in and see me to get a real cast, but he never did.Jock on Amanda: Two years after we married, she had a nervous breakdown. She lost all touch with reality. They had to confine her to a state mental hospital. Dr Filey told me to divorce her, that she’d never be a well woman. It’s something I never told anybody.1934Clayton: My daddy used to tell me when I was a little shaver that if I wanted to find myself a little peace of mind, just to find myself a nice fireplace.Paul Galveston: When I started out, I had a hundred dollars. Everything came from that.Mark Graison: My father used to work fourteen hours a day.Bobby: My daddy built an empire because he was smarter than the next guy and he worked harder and he was luckier.JR to Jock: You built Ewing Oil from the ground up and whatever it took, you did it for Ewing Oil.Jock: Ewing Oil is mine. I started it, I worked it, I made it what it is today.JR: My daddy always wanted Ewing Oil to be the biggest independent oil company in Texas.JR: My family built Texas into the great state it is now.Bobby on Ewing Oil: Daddy spent his whole life building that company.Bobby: Money and oil, the very things that built this company.JR: Ewing Oil was always a private company. Expansion was just a question of buying and selling with us.JR: Ewing Oil was built by our daddy. He meant for it to stay in the family.JR to Jock: You always said you’d never let Ewing Oil be destroyed.JR: Harve's been Ewing Oil's lawyer ever since there's been a Ewing Oil.Jock: Harve, you've been my lawyer since near Day One.Harve: I was your daddy’s attorney before you were born, JR.Harve: My job has always been to follow the orders of the man in charge of Ewing Oil.Miss Ellie to Harve: You’ve been representing Ewing interests for as long as I can remember.Miss Ellie: When you’re young and you find a man like Jock, the future’s so full of promise.Jock to JR: When I was able, I had [Amanda] moved to a private hospital in Colorado. Paid for her expenses ever since. Used to see her real often. I always dreaded seeing her. When I started seeing your mama, I stopped.Amanda to Jock: I missed you. I worry about you because you work so hard.Miss Ellie on Amanda: Why did you stop visiting her? Was it because of me?Jock: It was becoming harder and harder finding excuses. I was afraid that if I told you about Amanda, I’d lose you.Jock to Miss Ellie: Always wanted to tell [you about Amanda]. I must have been on the verge of it a hundred times, but the time was never right. I just didn’t have the guts to tell you, that’s all. I was in competition with Digger Barnes for you. I wasn’t so sure of myself in those days.Rebecca Wentworth: Digger Barnes was in love with Ellie. So was Jock Ewing. Two men in love with the same woman, happens all the time — but when one of the men is a Ewing, he isn’t content to win the woman fair and square, he has to destroy his rival at the same time.Digger on Jock: He not only stole my fortune, he stole my sweetheart. Miss Ellie on Jock: He didn’t steal me, Digger.Maggie Monahan on Digger: "Jock Ewing stole everything" — he's said it so often he believes it.JR to Bobby: The feud Digger Barnes started with our family caused more heartbreak than either of us has time to recount.Cliff on the enmity between the Barneses and the Ewings: There was never any decency in this feud. It started before JR and it’ll go on after him.Sam Culver: Not saying Digger really had any cause to hate you so, Jock. I guess you did as fair as you could by him.Maggie: According to Digger, everything bad is Ewing-made. Digger’s blamed Jock for all the misfortune he ever had. Some of the blame is Jock’s, but not all.Cliff: Jock said that he had never cheated Digger out of that oil.Miss Ellie: Jock was telling the truth, Cliff. Jock wanted so much to do right by Digger and Digger would never listen.Cliff: Old Digger, he was just stubborn.Miss Ellie: The only one that hurt Digger was Digger himself.Bobby: Mama, are you saying that Daddy's blameless, that he didn't con Digger out of things that are rightfully his?Miss Ellie: What I'm saying is Digger would have ended up the way he is even if there had never been a Jock Ewing.Miss Ellie on Garrison: I never understood why you never liked him.Jock: It was the other way around. I was the outsider — big successful oil man. He and his buddy Digger Barnes, they resented that.JR on Garrison: He used to hang around with Digger Barnes, sang the same refrain over and over again — the Ewings stole everything from him.Jock: Both ran away — Garrison to sea, Digger to the bottle.Miss Ellie: My brother Garrison and I were very close until he left.Garrison to Miss Ellie: I just got fed up with it, all the dust and the dying cattle. And all those fights with Daddy. So I just left you with the responsibility.Miss Ellie: Garrison loved the sea so he joined the merchant marine.Garrison on Digger: I tried to talk him into going to sea with me.Pam: I think Digger would have gone if he wasn’t so hooked on oil.Jock on Aaron Southworth: When Garrison ran away, he was bankrupt. The sheriff was knocking at the door.Miss Ellie: My family was gonna lose this ranch.Bobby on the drought of 1988: Mama was saying it was like this way back when she and her daddy almost lost the ranch.Miss Ellie: Did I ever say anything I didn't mean?Digger: One time I wish you had, when you told me you were going to marry Jock Ewing.Miss Ellie: I did what I had to do.Miss Ellie: I married Jock to save the ranch. It was different then. Sometimes we did things out of necessity, not love.Miss Ellie on her and Jock: There wasn’t much magic. It was all I could do to get him to marry me.Miss Ellie: I knew a woman once. Her man couldn’t decide whether or not to do right by her. So she took a horsewhip to him, helped make up his mind fast.Miss Ellie on JR: I had to take a horsewhip to the boy’s father before he’d do right by me.Jenna on Jock: Didn’t he love you?Miss Ellie: Oh yes. And I loved him more than any man I’d ever known, but not at first.Miss Ellie, on her wedding dress: My daddy had a woman come all the way from Paris with the material for it, and money was hard for him to come by in those days. But he was determined to show all those oil men that a Southworth wouldn’t be put to shame. [Jock] was something, all decked out in formal clothes. He would have felt better in boots and jeans. He kept tugging at his collar, trying to breathe. He was the handsomest man I’d ever seen.Lincoln Hargrave, attorney, speaking in 1981: You and Jock have been married … forty-two, forty-three years?Miss Ellie: Forty-five.Lincoln: Look at all the two of you have built.Miss Ellie: What have we built — an empire?JR: Mama, when you married Daddy, you knew that he had oil in his blood and he was the most ambitious man in the state of Texas.Garrison to Jock: I was in New York waiting for a ship when I read about you and Ellie getting married.Garrison: When I read she’d married that hard-nosed wildcatter, I didn’t wanna believe it. Guess that must have been the final straw for my old friend Digger Barnes.Jock: He survived it.Digger: I never held you responsible, you know that. You did what you had to do and I respected you for it.Miss Ellie: So did Jock.Digger on him and Ellie: I wish things could have turned out differently.Digger to Miss Ellie: I knew you were Jock's girl all along.Maggie: Digger took off right after Ellie married Jock.Ray: Miss Ellie would never leave Southfork so Jock married her and moved onto her land. If it ever bothered him, he never let on in any way that I know of and Miss Ellie always used to treat it as if it was their land, their ranch.Miss Ellie: How smart I was, marrying a man with dirty fingernails.Jock to Miss Ellie: I can't put into words how I feel about you. You knew that when you married me.Miss Ellie to Jock: I haven't always liked you, but I've always loved you and always trusted you.Jock to Miss Ellie: You remember when we first got married? We used to bring a bottle of wine up to the room, spend most of the night talking and carrying on.Miss Ellie: When Jock and I were first married, we had problems.Miss Ellie: When Jock and I were first married, he used to threaten to send me out to cooking school.Jock: Miss Ellie, when I married you, I told you that I account to no woman for my time.Miss Ellie: My father didn’t give us five years together. Sometimes I think he was right. We were both so headstrong.Miss Ellie: When I was first married, my daddy didn’t like Jock any better than Digger did.Jock on Aaron Southworth: Hated all oilmen. He said they ruined the ranges and stank up the air, and he figured the only way to live off the land decently was to raise cattle.Jock: I never did understand what Southworth saw in those steers.Gary, Jock and Ellie's son: Daddy loved the land for what he could get out of it. Mama loved the land just because it was.Jock on Aaron: It was oil he hated, not change.Miss Ellie: It was the land he loved.Jock: But he didn't have anything against improvement of the land. Otherwise we'd still be living in that little clapboard house.Jock: I built the first house Miss Ellie and I ever lived in, after the old ranch house burnt down.Miss Ellie: Jock built this house when the old one got too small.Jock: It's amazing how rewarding it can be to build your own home.Builder: Jock built this house to last.Miss Ellie: We built a home.Bobby: This house and its history is what grounds us as a family. It’s our roots.Mr Sampson, architect, to Bobby: When I designed Southfork for your mama and daddy, I put in all the fire resistant material that was available at the time.Miss Ellie on the Southfork living room: I love the way this room looks. I guess I always have.Jock to son Bobby on Section 40 of Southfork: That’s where I first discovered oil, right after I married your mama.JR: Section 40 sits on the biggest oil pool in Texas.Jock: Old Man Southworth damn near skinned me alive after he found out what I’d done. Barely tolerated me the way it was.Ray: Old Man Southworth had you tear down your well and cap it off.Jock: That's right. He didn't want all this turned into an oil field.Willie Joe Garr to JR: Your daddy capped that well long before you were ever born.Christopher Ewing, speaking in 2012: Miss Ellie threw Jock’s rig off the ranch.John Ross: Eighty years ago, Christopher.Miss Ellie: My daddy swore there'd never be any drilling on this land.Bobby on Aaron: He wanted that land preserved for ranching.Jock on Aaron: He put it in his will — nobody could ever drill on Southfork.Elena Ramos, speaking in 2012: No-one’s ever been allowed to drill on Southfork.Bank clerk, speaking to Bobby in 2012: This is the original [safety deposit] box taken out by your grandfather in 1934. It’s been transferred several times since then due to bank sales and mergers.Miss Ellie: It was my daddy’s wish that Garrison have the ranch. Jock, I never told you how hurt I was when I found out my daddy had made Garrison sole heir. But that’s the way things were done in those days — father to son.Miss Ellie: I was raised to believe a man should be head of a ranch.Miss Ellie: Daughters always came second.Miss Ellie: I always wanted a daughter. Maybe it’s a good thing I never had one.Miss Ellie on Jordan Lee: I remember back when he was a wildcatter. Wild he was, too. When he struck his first big well, he gave Jock a case of scotch and they spent all night trying to drink each other under the table. Jordan won and he gave me a charm bracelet so that some of his good luck would rub off on us.</blockquote>

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